Jasper Somsen Invites Anton Goudsmit Live! Jasper Somsen & Anton Goudsmit

• 1 Blue Anton (Live) 05:15
• 2 Strange Meeting (Live) 06:08
• 3 Ernesto (Live) 05:55
• 4 Let's Stay Together (Live) 06:31
• 5 Nuages (Live) 07:00
• 6 Bye-Ya (Live) 04:43
• 7 Desberato (Live) 05:42
• Total Runtime 41:14

Info for Jasper Somsen Invites Anton Goudsmit Live!

Jasper Somsen invites ... is a jazz concert series in which double bassist, composer and producer Jasper Somsen invites the best Dutch jazz musicians live on stage at Loburg, Wageningen as part of the international concert series by Jazz in Wageningen, Somsen's hometown.

This time double bassist Jasper Somsen and acclaimed guitarist Anton Goudsmit join forces on the new live album 'Jasper Somsen Invites Anton Goudsmit - Live!'. The album contains seven carefully selected tracks, including unique interpretations of jazz classics, pop songs and original compositions.

The album offers an immersive listening experience that emphasizes this synergy between both musicians. The collaboration between Somsen and Goudsmit goes back to the 1990s, when they collaborated with trumpeter Eric Vloeimans, among others. When the Jasper Somsen Invites series started in March 2014, Goudsmit was one of the first musicians to take the stage with saxophonist Efraïm Trujillo. Nobody could have imagined that exactly 10 years later, the two musicians would record a live duo album at the same venue.

Jasper Somsen is a versatile double bass player, composer and producer who has worked with international jazz greats such as Peter Erskine, Enrico Pieranunzi and Joey Calderazzo. In addition to his performances, he is a renowned studio producer and teacher at the ArtEZ Conservatory in Arnhem.

Anton Goudsmit is known for his characteristic and idiosyncratic guitar playing. He made a splash with bands such as The Ploctones and New Cool Collective and in 2010 won both the Boy Edgar Prize and Het Duiveltje, the prize for best Dutch pop guitarist.

"A varied excursion through the art of the guitar-bass duo, independent and yet in the tradition of Jim Hall - Charlie Haden, Joe Pass - N.H.Ø.P. or Ralph Towner- Gary Peacock ... pleasantly sensitive, sometimes hymnic intensity, especially in the Goudsmit originals "Ernesto" and "Desberato". (Jazzthing)

Anton Goudsmit, guitar
Jasper Somsen, double bass

Anton Goudsmit
is a much sought-after player who does amazing things with whatever music he is presented with or writes. In 2001 Anton formed the Ploctones to perform a series of his compositions commissioned by Dutch NPS Radio.


In 2004 a Goudsmit organized a live CD recording of the Ploctones at the Jazz op het Dak festival which was featured on VPRO television. Since then the Ploctones have emerged as a very creative and innovative group, capable of combining grooves and improvisation. Anton also performs internationally with the New Cool Collective as well as Eric Vloeimans’ Fugimundi trio (US tours in 2008 and 2010). Anton Goudsmit won the coveted Boy Edgar Prize in 2010 for his contribution and standing on the Dutch Jazz Scene.

Jasper Somsen
Dutch double bassist, composer and producer Jasper Somsen (1973) graduated in both Jazz and Classical double bass. He is an open minded versatile musician. Best known as a Jazz musician his field of interest and expertise also includes cross overs to classical, pop, world and film music and theater productions.

Jasper has collaborated with some of the very best musicians on the international jazz scene including Peter Erskine, Enrico Pieranunzi, Joey Calderazzo, Jeff Ballard, John Beasley, Jean-Michel Pilc, Eric Marienthal, Bob Sheppard, Seamus Blake, Jorge Rossy, Kendrick Scott, Justin Faulkner, André Ceccarelli, Gary Husband, Gabriele Mirabassi and Paolo Fresu.

Besides a performer and composer, Jasper Somsen is a Challenge Records artist and a renowned studio producer.

Most of Jasper's compositions can be heard on his albums. His compositions "Silk Threads" and "Love Waiting Endlessly" (album: Common View) reached more than 10 million listeners on Spotify. His albums "Voyage In Time" and "Traveller's Ways" are highly praised by both the audience and the international press.

With the Portuguese Jazz and Fado vocalist Maria Mendes he won the Dutch EDISON AWARD 2020 (Jazz/World Music) and was four times nominated for both the American and Latin GRAMMY, in 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2024.

Jasper performs world wide and can be heard on approx. 50 albums, video and film music scores.

Outside a busy playing and studio producing schedule he is an educator at the ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem (NL) and the general director of the foundation Cultural City of Wageningen, in his hometown.

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